Example sentences of "been [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 2 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 3 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 4 | Duncan 's small room , with a metal-framed cot , small table and two chairs , was one of the best in the hotel , having been repainted a sickly pale green only six months earlier . |
| 5 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 6 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 7 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 8 | A sheet had been spread out on the ground , and around it had been placed a square of long hard bolsters . |
| 9 | However , Article 15 specified slightly increased levels of HLCAs because the conversion rate of European Currency Units to Sterling has been altered a little and it is recommended that any enhanced payments should be linked solely to conservation undertakings and be re-imbursed by the EEC . |
| 10 | The mother — who believes she passed on her 50-a-day habit to the girl while she was pregnant — revealed that Cherie had been diagnosed a nicotine addict by a doctor . |
| 11 | An ambassador could still expect , at the end of his mission , to receive from the ruler to whom he had been accredited a farewell present which was often , particularly for special ambassadors of high social rank , of considerable value . |
| 12 | Mayor 's chaplain Tony Rees was furious he had n't been refunded a £187 overpayment . |
| 13 | The point is not that some have been forgiven a greater number of sins than others or that some are ‘ worse sinners ’ than others but that some see their need of forgiveness and others do not . |
| 14 | Modern theories of water structure centre on computer-simulation models from which has been developed a concept which is similar to the DNA model just discussed , the concept of cellular automata . |
| 15 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 16 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 17 | ‘ You have already been given a full briefing on the facts , ’ said the President . |
| 18 | The tenants have been given a year 's notice to quit and they face the loss of their livelihood and homes . |
| 19 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
| 20 | Jeremy Batty , an 18-year-old off-spinner , has been given a two-year contract by Yorkshire after his first-class debut in the last game of the season against Lancashire at Scarborough when he had match figures of 8 for 193 . |
| 21 | He said the Solidarity-led government had been given a chance to implement a ‘ total change ’ from Poland 's communist system to a free-market economy . |
| 22 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 23 | Cross-examined by Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , on the eighth day of the libel trial , Lord Aldington told the court that he now considered the interests of the Cossacks had not been given a sufficiently high priority by the British Army and the War Cabinet . |
| 24 | JIMMY CONNORS , who beat John McEnroe in a bitter final eight years ago , returns to Wembley next month , having been given a wild card for the tournament which begins on 7 November , when the 37-year-old faces McEnroe again . |
| 25 | The new latrine now situated in a quiet corner of the orchard has been given a permanent status ; a shithouse clerk has been appointed . |
| 26 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 27 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 28 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 29 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 30 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |